352 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Of the two Parts of vol. iii., the first is devoted to the Palms (in- 

 cluding Nipa) and Pandane^: (Pandanus 22 species, and Freycinetia 

 14). AroidejE and OrontiacEjE, in the second part, are tolerably 

 numerous. Juncagine^e is represented by a genus which we should 

 little have expected in such a Flora, Scheuchzeria Asiatica, Miq. This 

 Part closes with the seventeenth species of Carex, among Cyperacejb, 



The plates seem to be faithful representations of the respective plants, 

 with careful dissections ; they average two to each number. We cannot 

 but wish every success to so laborious an undertaking. 



Plants Junghuhnian^e : Enumeratio Plantarum quas in insulis Java 

 et Sumatra detexit Fr. Junghuhn. Fasc. 4. 1851-1855. 



This is one of the many writings alluded to in the preceding notice, 

 which has contributed in no small degree % to our knowledge of the 

 vegetable productions of the Dutch East Indian Archipelago, and is 

 specially confined to the plants of Sumatra and Java, detected by M. 

 Junghuhn, and published without any systematic arrangement of the 

 families. Thus the work begins with Conifera, Casuarinea, Cupuli- 

 fera, Piperacece, Urticacece, Morece, Artocarpece by Miquel ; and is fol- 

 lowed by Ranunculacece , Papaveracece, Nymphteacea, Nelumbiacea, Dip- 

 terocarpece, Upacridete, Primulacece, by De Vriese ; Urnbelliferce, by 



Molkenb 



Lorantliacece 



by Molkenboer ; Violariece by Burgersdyk ; Polygalacea, Amaranthacece, 

 Commelynacece by Hasskarl ; Palmce, Pandanea, Nepenthece, Lernnacece, 

 Cfiaracea, and a host of minor Orders, by Miquel; Leguminosce by 

 Bentham; Lycopodinea by Spring; Malvacece and allied Orders by 

 Miquel; Polygonea by De Bruyn; Musci Frondosi by the late able 

 Mycologists,, Dozy and Molkenboer; Graminece by Buse; Sapindacece, 

 etc., Miquel ; Lichenes by Montague and Van den Bosch ; Composite by 

 Miquel (on whom has fallen the labouring oar) ; and lastly, still un- 

 finished, Hepatica by Van der Sande Lacoste. The whole is written 

 in Latin ; — a bare enumeration of name and one or more synonyms 

 when the plant is well known ; generic and specific characters and de- 

 scriptions when considered necessary. The work needs a good Index 

 when the Natural Families are so intermingled. It extends at present 

 to 522 pages, and contains very many new species. 



